Workers Socialist League

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Youth Mob Fascists

Socialist Press no. 91, 15 March 1978 · scan pp. 4–5 · about 438 words

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The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation fighting to construct a principled revolutionary leadership in the working class in Britain and internationally, and for the reconstruction of the Trotskyist Fourth International on the basis of the Transitional Programme.

The WSL fights at every step against the existing leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party - now firmly harnessed to the bourgeois politicians of the Liberal Party in an Against their policies of class collaboration we put forward instead a programme which points to the independent class interests of the working class, its need to organise indep endently to overthrow capitalism, destroy its repressive state machinery and establish a Only in this way can workers resolve today's problems of tumbling living standards, mass unemployment, slashed social services, racial, unspoken coalition arrangement. socialist planned economy.

national and sexual oppression.

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Address Trade U A massive spontaneous movement by youth in High Wycombe has on two weeks running driven the National Front from distributing leaflets in the town's shopping centrethe Octagon.

On the first occasion, Saturday March 4, less than 20 anti-fascists were distributing leaflets when about six members of the NF arrived In the ensuing struggle, the fascists' leaflets were destroyed and within about five minutes they were surrounded by some 150 peoplemainly school youth, black and white, who burst through a thin blue line of police and chased the fascists through the shopping centre into a carpark where unfortunately they managed to escape in a lift.

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Following their narrow escape the NF did not dare show their face Octagon this Saturday.

Earlier in the day handful appeared briefly in fascist mobilisı A la: youth blacks, others glimpse Liquidation Police were very much in evidence but were unable despite "moving people on" to disperse the crowd.

The eagerness with which youth in High Wycombe have demoristrated their willingness to fight fascism must be translated into the building of organisations to develop that strength-in particular the National Union of School Students, the union of those at school.

Unemployed youth must fight for admittance to the trade union movement. The whole of the workers movement locally must be mobilised to follow the example set by the youth and take action to drive the fascists off the streets of High Wycombe.

Workers defence squads, including trade union and NUSS forces must be set up.

were again ge crowd of about 80 including Asians, punk rockers and were waiting for a of the NF.

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Workers engaged trac union struggles and anti-fascist mobilisations, and youth harassed by

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